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This was the question that totally threw me on a del.icio.us user survey. I just did a double-take, because I found the idea of being loyal to a social bookmark site, somewhat odd.

How does a website earn your loyalty? I remember how quickly I stopped using Alta Vista to switch to Google back in the day. If someone made a better search engine, I’d ditch Google in a second.

Sure I like del.icio.us. Maybe I dont use it as much as I used to. These days I tend to find more interesting links on sites like reddit or digg. I’m finding adding links to del.icio.us a bit of a pain these days, perhaps because I have so many tags.

Has del.icio.us let me down in anyway? Nope.
Has it lost my bookmarks? Nope.
Do I feel its earnt my loyalty? Nope.

Do you consider yourself loyal to any particular website?

…or conventional thinking leads to conventional results.

I’ve come across two articles recently about the non-conventional design and architecture of systems that are yielding some outstanding performance. First up is an article about writing high performance code for the Sony PlayStation 3 (itself an example of a non-conventional hardware architecture).

The second article is a blog post about the architecture of the Mailinator service. It’s a great read about the design of system tightly tuned for its purpose.